♪ ♪ >> sandra: the message is get out now about to approach the top of the new hour as we continue to get updates on hurricane milton burling towards florida and these are flukes -- folks clearing -- >> john: no opening much do it for us this hour when we see you tomorrow will be just hours away from the storm's effect will be felt on the florida coast, lungful expected around midnight. >> sandra: be safe everybody. dvr -- that your dvr never mess "america reports." i'm sammy smith

with afternoon everyone and michael -- michael mccallum and this is the story and we -- what a story it is we expect an update any moment now, we will take you live to florida governor ron desantis as he and his team are preparing for what is shaping up to be a once in a century epic hurricane. milton is growing stronger, you can see training out to sea. just north of cancun right now barreling towards florida over the next 24 hours and a little more than that among a live look at the packed roads as people tried to escape the state of florida or move farther north or south to get out of this past, very tricky to determine what that will look like though. more than a million people under evacuation orders in the state and today, vice president harris is here in new york and friendly media territory with exactly four weeks to go from today

is the election. she has been doing a number of interviews, among them shall sit down with stephen colbert tonight. howard stern earlier today. and in the middle of the day, she sat down with the women of the view of your machine fielded questions such as why would anyone vote for trump so you can get the tenor of how this went. one question was about the border as far as the past four years she said that in terms of her relationship and how onboard she is with team biden, she wouldn't really change a thing. >> if anything, would you have done something differently than president biden during the past four years? >> there's not a thing that comes to mind in terms of -- and have been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact. >> martha: without we bring in our panel as we wait for governor desantis moments away, were joined by a great group to discuss this. kellyanne conway former

senior counselor to president trump no presidents of k8 consulting and a fox news contributor. heavy curtains here of course host of media buzz and patrick murphy former democratic congressman from pennsylvania. great to have all of you with us today. you know, i want to start by taking another look at a peace from the view, you know, the view was originated by barbara walters to represent many different viewpoints and have sort of dynamic discussions. but this is part of it that i think will give you a sense for what happened there today. watch. >> people are ready for new -- a new generation of leadership that is about fixing problems. [cheering and applause] [laughter] >> martha: how we, in a human analysing about a -- a

lot of these injuries, 60 minutes and this is a very stark day-to-day for her. your thoughts. >> from the moment whoopi goldberg battled to introduce her "the next president of the united states below i just cringed. the view was more embarrassing than i expected. they trashed donald trump, they praise kamala. for some reasonable questions were asked as he noted but she just ran circles around them, retreating to her talking points when she wouldn't want to answer a question and also she actually made some news which had been leaked in advance sort of pitching yourself to the sandwich generation by saying that medicare should pay people who take care of elderly folks at home and not just be for them to move an inexpensive solution. and that the first time she's had a new policy proposal in weeks and weeks where she had not been making any unused, terminal -- particular kind of appearances but you can see why it was tempting for

the vice president. >> sandra: >> martha: it was a great campaign event and that is what it was from the beginning to end, i don't think there's really under -- other way to look at this. but why is my question in terms of strategy? what has changed -- in the past couple of days, she was out there a lot at this po point. >> sure. martha, she's still in friendly audiences with easy questions as you saw there. and nothing any news was broken today insofar as she's reached a single swing voter deterrence on the -- the view which is that from bashing machine, doesn't belong in unused division in abc by the way, there when we -- welcome to have an opinion show -- huh huh away from not just interviewers but the people. voters most days because of

what you just tell she's not prepared, here somebody who foods -- with a broken teleprompter last week and kept saying ready to these, 32 days. it's awkward at best, our opponents throughout the country and the world watch it and are really frightened and i don't think much has changed because she is running out the clock and trump is raising it but the way you and is not my doing one big thing a month and regulation become -- becomes the nominee, august just a convention, september is -- is the big october of --'s you win and lose them in the small day by day. you got trump and vance barnstorming the swing states and making them gloves available to all kind of things and then you have this. this wanted to say joe biden and jill biden are trying to sabotage this woman. extended june 22nd and on the debate i absolutely believe it.

she attack ron desantis today, decided to back but joe biden said i think desantis is doing a great job. i told him and give him -- >> martha: want to get a couple quick things here. this is charlemagne my god, patrick, and here's what he had to say about he sees the race and clearly she's gone to a lot of sort of female tantric audiences lately but his men with whom she is struggling. watch this. >> you listen to a lot of reporters and all be talking to the view or j.d. vance and will be talking to them about things that are happening right here in america. so it's always america first but then you go to tim walz and they're asking him about geopolitical politics and i think a lot of times that makes them sound like a very out of touch. you hear, you know, do vance's enter-mac's what's happening here at home and saying things like america first and make america great again and make that messaging sometimes resonates a lot more. >> martha: he went on to say not just sometimes it does resonate more earmark your reaction, patrick? >> yeah, i would actually agree. adding donald trump has been strong and wrong pretty much

this --'s will and that's what he had six -- that's why he racked up about $8 trillion and that when he was our president for four years. and listen -- sometimes i think i'm a minute our world from a go to the cbs even -- and donald trump was supposed to have periods p.r. >> martha: i'm vaglio brought that up because i want to squeeze in one more thing and i know that we're tight on time because we're waiting for governor desantis but how we all want to watch you have this very closely because i know it went through my mind as i watched the edit cuts in this answer from vice president harris. watch this. >> 250 hostages were taken including americans. woman were brutally and as i said then i maintain israel has a right to defend itself, we would. and how it does so matters. far too many innocent palestinian's have been

killed. this war has to and. >> martha: there are four it is in a sign bout. when it -- i was surprised at how many times within one answer there were pull-ups and cuts. and expand what's going on there? >> well, it's a classic sort of network overproduced kind of thing. >> martha: is that? is not what i saw -- a lot of times you'll see abc pull away and show video. earlier today were others campaign site and then they come back, this is within one answer. >> yes this was an unsigned because she's not giving to sentence answers. you can see that on media and i think there was a mistake on cbs point, they should have run the whole thing and edited so they -- and at the same time bill whitaker had to say relentlessly came back when she touched the questions with generalities. that was not the question, the question was, how are you going to pay for? and so i thought 60 minutes did a pretty good job payment she came up okay but, yeah, the editing was still blatant and i found it annoying and a

better teacher move on the part of system is in a follow-up with -- >> real quick -- >> martha: -- give you real quick -- >> i would say 90% of success is showing up for mcmill harris showed up because she's a leader for 16 minutes -- 60 mits prima donna temperature was budgeted and she back -- you back down. >> martha: what he back down, kellyanne? >> because they're never going to edit him back also the biggest problem with the main stream media right now are the polls grandma it biden update ..1% today over trump nationally in 2029 mack now kamala is up 210 points so the chardy poles come from that -- i think they're starting to not undercount the trump voter and she has not really -- she needs to go into friendly media like that from another needed which is taking his case right to the voters. >> 60 minutes. >> in the cbs and -- note -- me tell you something. [simultaneous talking] >> he won't debate her. >> martha: --

[simultaneous talking] >> martha: she like my she declined to be here and then he defined a debate in the middle -- it was a candidate which rousseau that's where we are with -- with forward -- all of you think is so much. with top here today. so we are awaiting for governor ron desantis who was a busy man today as he gets ready to provide an update on this massive hurricane that is barreling towards florida more than a million people have been ordered to flee and you can see what that traffic looks like right now. what could be the state's largest storm in history.

but just cones. all this stuff you see, the impacts will be broader than that, particularly with respect to storm surge on the west coast of florida. i know that there's a lot of folks who have who have evacuated, who are in those areas, and you absolutely could get whacked with really serious storm surge, really almost every place on the west coast of florida could get major storm surge. today, i held a joint call with state legislative leaders and the cabinet to brief them on florida's efforts on the storm and about our resources that are being offered and being utilized by the state of florida. we also did a similar call to florida's congressional delegation, have also spoken to the president and the fema administrator. we've had our

requests approved for pre-landfall. we will get a landfall. major disaster declaration approved once the storm hits. and that will be things like debris removal and individual assistance. we still have 51 counties that are under a state of emergency. there's pretty much warnings or watches on almost the entire florida peninsula. a lot of a lot of tension is being paid to the storm surge, on the west coast of the florida peninsula and rightfully so because that's probably the most serious threats to people's lives and property. but the storm will go across the florida peninsula and he will exit on the east coast of florida into the atlantic ocean. likely still as a hurricane. so that will bring significant impacts all across the state so just be prepared for that. that may mean mobile homes, even interior, other

structures that may not be hurricane proof that dr. create hazards, reverse, other bodies of water, as we have more in and near flooding -- so this is not just an event about the west coast of florida. there will be where the initial impacts and probably the most significant with the impacts will not be limited there. so we are -- here we are the florida horse park, we have staging areas around different parts of the state and there are different sites that are doing different things. for example you got lake city, a lot of the utility line man there that are staged. we've got a lot of people staged at the tampa bay area for utility and other things but this one right here is really good, annexing -- from the storm but we fully anticipate being able to move people where they need to go very quickly once the storm passes and you have -- we

have different partners at the state contracts with -- they have personnel i think as you hear schmidt as you see they came out here. this is where they are and unable to respond. we've got massive amounts of equipment here, things, land, air, see vehicles, suppliers, bucket trucks, you name it. the stuff is here. so this is just one of many sites that are ready to go. you know, we spend a week -- reason way we do speak -- state of emergency we did over the weekend on saturday, we knew the steering -- for more likely to end of the middle of the week of the earliest because you want to start amassing these resources and that's what we've done. i think it's been really, really important. so on this property you got over 2000 pieces of equipment including a lot of pumps, generators, lite plants, display boards, rest room thrillers, laundry trailers, forklift, air-conditioning units, electrical equipment, water houses, montréalers and

rural -- 400 personnel here including rigourous agreement operators pumps rules and drivers, fuel trucks are also here to be deployed as nee needed. florida dem is currently in the process of completing 1200 missions so far you're looking at deploying hundreds of thousands of shelf-stable meals, hundred of thousands of water bottles i'm a kind of thousands of sandbags, a lot of parts and a lot of generators. and many other things. and so that is being resourced to the counties and of course we also have staging areas which will do with our parts once the storm passes. we have utilized flood protection devices in areas to protect against storm surge. we've now deployed more than 11,000 feet of those tiger dams that's really important to protect hospitals, wastewater facilities and electrical infrastructures.

of course we've been outfitting counties for years now with starling internet so that will be available to be used as needed. in terms of fuel, we amassed a lot of fuel before this particular emergency. we actually had it for hel helene, didn't really use it -- need to use this for that. we have 268 cal -- 2,060,000 gallons of diesel, that's just from the states, you know, you still have the fuel at the ports that are being brought in. but then we also have another one to 2 million gallons of both diesel and gas that are currently in route to the state. no there's been a lot of lines at gas stations, you know, rbc have on an inordinate demand for fuel, much more than we typically have been. what's happening is there's longline glen mcgregor stations run out of fuel

who like mark were also working with companies like circle k gates, racetrack, wawa maxx yehl and walmart to ensure fuel trucks are working 24/7 keep fuel delivered as it comes into our apartment there is no longer fuel coming in the some of the west coast ports like tampa and manati but it got a lot of fuel there on dockside that is going to continue to be used. and i spoke with both parts of tampa and manati today and it got a lot of fuel. so that's continuing to happen and then fuel has been coming into the east coast ports, that's probably going to stop soon maybe it's already stop now but again

there's a lot of fuel that's on hand that can be brought out on the dockside and that is what we're looking to continue to see happen. debris removal from hurricane helene, i think most people know that counties in the cities, they have contracts for debris removal after a storm. there was not necessarily a great job all around on some of the contractors in places like manati, sarasota, hillsboro counties. we saw this debris once it was clear, there was some type of storm this weekend. we decided to create a state support debris mission and what we've done is we've mandated the landfills are open 24 hours, we had one county where they didn't have anyone there manning it. we open it up forcibly, make sure that the debris can be brought in. so that's florida department of transportation. name now deployed over 300 them trucks so that -- and

they're going to continue to do it, all day today and as long as they can tomorrow before we start to feel impacts from the onset of the storm. so as of this morning, florida department of transportation has moved -- removed over 1300 truckloads of debris and a little over 48 hours among that's a huge, huge amount. now there was issues -- the mystery was probably in the pamela conti beaches, he also had manati the barrier islands like that of maria like -- that was our initial focused. sarasota also had a lot of debris on their barrier islands and i guess there contractor kind of left them holding the ball so we've now searched over 100 vehicles between manatee and sarasota, working to step in where the contractors left off. we're going to continue doing that again all the way until it's no longer safe to do so. we've made a huge dent in

this, the more they really can get picked up the last damages going to happen whether that's going into the gulf of mexico, whether it's projectiles that go into other buildings. we have hundreds of state search and rescue personnel, total of 36 teams embedded into potential impact sights along the west coast to begin immediate rescue operations as soon as the storm passed should the need and are arise. and a lot of people have left -- hello expander 8000 very, very so soon. we have a total of 34 search and rescue aircraft. we've got a lot of support from other states and we thank them for that mix we have 450 tactical vehicles including 140 highway -- high real vehicles, area water and ground national guard search-and-rescue teams. this is probably the largest

national guard mobilization in advance of the storm in florida history. we also have the florida state guard, ten maritime crews, three high water you tvs. two uh -- 15 cut and toss crews, two amphibious rescue crews and almost 200 florida state guard soldiers. linemen and power restoration resources are being mars marshaled. we know over 43,000 linemen who are being brought in from as far away as california. so we appreciate them for prior -- power restoration. we also assisted with graphic -- accepting families of residents to shelter with them as they are all built to withstand cat five hurricane winds the outside of -- flood zones.

florida disaster fund, this was activated after ian, adalia and helene. if you want to support for milton go to florida disaster fund.org. this is really, really significant way to help people. you should be executing your plan now. if you're going to get out, get out now. you have time today nine and mac-cam will be running out very shortly if you wait any longer -- we have done the shoulders on the life or and the i75, veterans expressway and suncoast parkway tolls have been waived. this can also be used as evacuation routes. i four is doing a lot better today than yesterday, still traffic but that is it, that's the norm for that. i-75 northbound 20 high 30% higher volumes, alligator alley is pretty right now.

we have unprecedented effort underway, want to thank everyone that's been invo involved. it's not easy, especially when you just responded to a category four storm helene to have it done, and everyone is tired, trust me, we get it. we are wearing out associates at the studio ac that what you're doing is important, hang in there and will get the job done. okay kevin. >> martha: governor ron desantis talk about hurricane milton which is threatening what could be the first direct hit on tampa by a major hurricane in more than a century. it is a category for storm and it is 155 miles per hour as last seen in that 2:00 p.m. advisory. you can see it turning just

north of cancun, mexico. we haven't had a lot of news out of the region that is hovering over right now what we're trying to find out what their experiences are like there and it's expected to slam into the gulf coast of florida with the are still cleaning up from helene. no that debris could go flying so they have a huge effort underway right now to try to clean up as much as they can so that they don't have to deal with a lot of debris in the air base on the last hurricane. foxworthy meteorologist steve bender reporting live from us from sarasota. you're just -- he is just south of tampa. hi steve. >> hi, martha. i wanted to -- that debris left behind from helene you notice behind me were on a barrier island this -- and sarasota took a direct hit and as you look at this pile of debris the longer you look at it the more of those kind of household items that start to emerge there was something else that i've noted here as we move along these barrier islands are these mounds of sand.

this was actually the storm surge from helene that came in and brought all of these with it. if you look pass into that garage there's mounds of sand as well. what we've noticed is residents and locals are doing the absolute final preparation. you're going to these and grabbing sandbags making them. after he got to talk with noah. he is a guy that actually looks inland by his to be coming out and making sandbags because what he relied and a lot of people never seen this before and you don't know what they're doing then back to making sandbanks. niklas edin tunnel. >> yeah, people come out not knowing what they're doing, you know, because they've never done anything like th this. especially if the minutes or so later whole life. so, you know, people -- just like with bullet paper people buy them up. >> and so they're giving out those sandbags were free d.c. they've been working for the last three days straight eight hour shifts, trying all they can to help one another mix we get started sarasota police go by, a talk with them, they're shutting down leto island tonight at

7:00 p.m., no reentry. this is a mandatory evacuation zone and if you plan all the way down you'll see it's absolutely quiet here, martha. you heard from governor ron desantis he talked about all the preparations, all of the crew to have come in. this is a unprecedented event, talking about a major hurricane right now looking at tampa, to sarasota taking the absolute brunt of milton coming in. >> martha: steve bender in my thank you very much, steve, i know you guys will be busy in the coming hours and over the next few days so thank you, steve. we'll be following it along with fox news weather for sure. two major hurricanes create a political clash as biden and harris last misinformation over fema funds to suffering survivors. reaction from the trump camp and harris camp next. ♪ ♪ >> people in desperate need of support right now and paying political games in this moment in these crisis situations, these are the

height of emergency to iterations -- this is utterly possible and it is selfish and it is about political gamesmanship instead of doing the job that he took an oath to do which is to put the people first.

♪ ♪ >> martha: midmorning today we got news that president biden will cancel his overseas trip germany and africa is where he was headed to stay at the white house to focus on recovery from hurricane helene and preparations for hurricane milton which you can see turning on your screen there. is looking to be a category for, could be one of the force -- worst hit florida in a century. probably the worst of it stays like this. we hope it doesn't, we hope it burns out in those warm waters on its way towards naples but the president and vice president in the white house also taking aim at what they call misinformation about the hurricane response.

>> president joe biden: it puts people -- people are scared to death. people know their lives are at stake. >> x profound and it is the height of irresponsibility and frankly callousness. so lives are literally at stake right now your mark but this is so consistent about donald trump and mckee puts himself before the needs of other -- i feel that he really lacks empathy on a very basic level. >> there's not enough money right now -- in north carolina -- does not misinformation. >> no that is -- your whole premise of the question is misinformation. what you -- yes. its misinformation. >> martha: okay. you get the idea of. 2024 senior advisor alina habba is here with me onset but first let's bring in cedric richmond and makara swallows -- which have you with us earmarked thank you very much for joining us.

you know, with regard to the suggestions of misinfo misinformation, you know, i just want to play the sound bite from the baseball coach jason beek who is near asheville, north carolina, just to get one human beings take on what he personally had -- has experience. let's watch. >> we were getting any help button community just got together, a little town, the police department, the people got together and when there was no food at all, we were literally cut off, the amount was gone from one side, we still have no running water. just got power but to watch that we need to get together before fema, before national guard, people just pulling everything together. >> martha: you know, it's great news obviously that neighbors are helping neighbors and that there's a lot of efforts that are underway but it still begs the question why did it take a week for thematic underground and during that

time we did see a lot of campaigning going on so there's -- it raises questions about who skeleton the situation. >> well thank you for having me. let me just correct something first, it wasn't a week before fema got on. second i left -- live through hurricane katrina and rita and after devastating storms, it takes a moment to reach everybody where they are and what communities do is they don't wait on government, they start to work. but what this demonstration is done is already spent hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to victims of the hurricane. and what you do as fema sets up a hotline in my people start to apply for immediate cash funds and then you see the government fund -- local government -- >> they didn't -- a talk or yesterday, her mother is still missing. and we lost -- less than -- 232 people have died in the situation and i'm listening to governor the center is

talking about the prepositioning of all of these assets, blackhawk toppers and all of these things that are ready to go and i'm just -- how you respond to that? why was not the case with helene? >> if you give me a chance to answer i will, the were assets people positions before helene. and that happens at every storm in coordination with fema and others and look, what we won't do is play to protect because this is too serious. i watch 1500 people die in hurricane katrina and rita. so this may be cute, market may be a sound bite for you but this is where -- 11 what we have to do is -- >> martha: that's what i'm saying. >> okay. were not going to drop each other. >> martha: go ahead. >> we're going to make sure that people understand that there is aid of their neighbors in free to apply for. we're going to help with recovery, were going to help rescue people earmarked you saw the national guard out there for me you saw the coast guard out there, rescuing people him against the federal government coming in to help cities and states.

and we're going to be there for florida when this happens. and so when you talk about repositioning of electrical line workers, all the way from california to florida, that is the federal government stepping up to help and that's how it happens in these hurricanes. but the misinformation that can be dangerous as when you don't provide people with the information of where to go get resources, to apply for fema a, how to safely dispose of your debris. all of those things are critical in what we should do is make sure we are giving out accurate information. >> martha: well we've been doing that all week and we have spoken with people who say that they were calling fema and they were getting a, you know, go online and register for $750 to be sent to you and they said i don't have a computer, and a half anyway to get online and to a information. this is not what i'm -- >> and fema has boots on the ground going door-to-door so people can apply with fema. >> martha: that's what their reality was in terms of

what their experience was, you don't speak for everything a person i hope other people had a much better extremes than dated. but obviously it's a tough time. we do only to pull together and help these people in every single way we can, this meant an amazing private effort as well on behalf of a number of veterans who do this work through rubicon and save our allies in all of that so that been a huge, huge help as well and we hope that florida fares well. cedric richmond thank you very much for being here today. ♪ ♪ >> martha: joining minnow is alina habba, trump 2024 senior advisor. good to have you with us. you know, there's been criticism about former president trump and cedric was touching on that there and what he has said about the ability for the administration to respond to this issue, what do you see to that? >> it's very simple. let's talk about facts, cedric saying this misinformation. let's talk about information is an disputable. while helene -- to go on a

podcast about, all her daddy. when holly was having my president biden was nowhere to be found. so now we have retake. by the way this morning the -- the view kamala saint president trump lacks empathy, no one was rich. is a person's help with elon musk get everybody starlike. so i'm talking facts and honestly, what governor desantis it was perfect. this is not the time to politicize, this is not a time to get a point ahead of your other opponent periods attempt to get dirty and go help people and that is what president trump mcclennon. he hasn't tried to make phony phone calls to look good to the media,'s gotten out there, is going out there, where people in north carolina from the campaign from the rnc out there helping with their hands, buying things name the coordinating with dylan mask. that is -- >> martha: why in the campaign effort like in western north carolina? >> we have people bringing and i'm sure you saw lara trump took a team out there on the ground with a campaign, with the rnc entered a tremendous job, you know, she's from north carolina so that's home for her.

and western carolina got hit really hard like you said these are real people with real issues. you don't need a 750-dollar handout for a press headline. then you help, they need water, there so people missing, there are people -- babies floating in the water and were on podcast? that's what her scheme is doing so i think what cedric is doing is completely responsible -- >> martha: where you see the report of a baby voting in the water? >> we have absolutely -- dismissing bodies, their bodies, we know that, are dead people up there -- 2052, thank you. so this is the problem. it's not misinformation, it's back and talk about katrina, i really like your dealing with trauma from katrina but we have problems happening now, we've got to deal with things know anything governor desantis is doing exactly what you should be doing but frankly that should be coming from the molecular, that should be coming from the top and what he's doing is a great example for the country, what president trump did getting in there, using the money, using his resources to give them things they need, electricity, power, you know, that is the things they need. their children there missing. is just the fact.

>> martha: i mean really cool new -- we talk to a woman whose mother was missing yesterday who was hanging onto a wall that slammed into a tree and she and her husband were separated. we can document that because we know the people are involved in it and we spoke at some of these other her stories are not true but we're still, you know, getting in more information on all of this. i want to put up emerson poulin mcaium aarons "new york times" cnn shows harris ahead by three points among likely voters, 49, 46 in that current polling. and one of the questions that is being asked today about marc thiessen of the mashing -- "washington post" has to do with nikki haley who will talk to an a moment wanted -- mathewson writes this, "trump should deploy her, to key battleground states for the next four weeks to convince the reluctant but personable 18% of the electorate cast their ballots for him, failure to do so would be sure political malpractice. it could very well cost him

the presidency." lexmark he is writing a column for "the washington post". what direction to that? and i going to happen first of all. >> with this before his plan -- what was pretty was to be giving -- all i can tell you is this, we are all for anybody who's trying to save america and nikki haley if she's on that camp today and she is willing to come out and help save america, god bless let's go because we are in a state of crisis, we have seen people come out actors, actresses that know it will hurt their career and support donald trump. we are in a state of crisis -- >> she said she was standing by and happy to help a few weeks ago. >> i love that. >> martha: but you don't know if there's any plan at this point? >> eddie renaud at any plan at this point. >> martha: all right. alina, you very much. interesting point by matt heaton today and will be watching all these. thank you for coming by today. so a razor-thin race with less than a month to go to election day. watch this. >> so the bottom line here is yes, we have listed polling averages but the real thing in the tell us is that this

race is too close to call, were probably not going to know who's going to win for another month and perhaps another month and change. >> martha: we saw the pole that president trump is ahead 1324 and obviously orator is under a ton of pressure right now but as promised former republican provincial candidate nikki haley on potential weak spots that she sees for vice president harris. talk about the battle in the swing states coming up. ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ >> martha: can you believe were four weeks from the election? it has been quite a year and we are really now in the final final weeks of this process for the country, or 2024 and the next steps in our democracy. these are brand-new fax power rankings that show vice president harris hanging

onto a slight advantage over former president trump india -- electoral college production but it can go actually -- you can see 78 are in the middle there, those are the thoughts of swing states which decide every election. listen to cnn's polling group and the unprecedented nature of how tight this thing is. watch. >> the bottom line is this race is going to be too close to call. almost certainly all the way till election day. is definitely going to be with and there will in its most likely going to be within this interval so the bottom line is the state point average tell us what it tells us that it's just a risk that is too close to call may be one candidate is a slight advantage over the other one but the bottom line is it is way too close to call and it will remain so. >> martha: so we'll see if they're right. former republican provincial candidate and dr. landgren -- she's also the host of nikki haley live on sirius xm. great to see you, governor and ambassador. nice to have you with us. once again. do you agree that it's going

to stay that tight all the way because whenever i hear all the prognosticators decide that one thing is the way it's going to be i'm always thinking we are maybe not? >> is going to be close. this will be the tightest residential real think we've seen in a very long time. it's a hold our breath moment. it's very important for making both parents and trump to think about who isn't that's going to decide the selection. it's just 5-10% of the people. its suburban woman, it's independence, is college-educated. it is some conservative democrats and they need to just talk to them. and, you know, absent for a long time is take kamala october, she did an interview today and she said again she wouldn't do anything different than what biden did. so if you take the one thing she switched on fracking, she switched on immigration and my she switched on all kinds of things but what's the one decision as a candidate that she's made that we can hold her to? her vice presidential candidate. tim walz.

she didn't pick the moderate, mark shapiro, she didn't pick the pro-israel candidate for michigan and pick the pro fracking in joshua pero girma she went with a progressive, leftist governor mix and what we know about tim walz? governor who had -- who raise taxes when he had an 18 million-dollar surplus in his budget. a governor who allows illegal immigrants to have free health care, they get drivers licenses, free college. a governor who allows abortion up until the time of birth. a governor who allows government to get in between the relationship of parents and their kids on transgender issues. that is who you are talking about with tim walz and when a crisis hit and george floyd happens, the mayor of minneapolis called him for three days again for the national guard and he wouldn't give it in his response in his own words what it was an abject fai failure. so look at what she has done and look at the words that she has said and take her at

her word. that is what treatment needs to be pushing all day every day because those undecided voters, they want to believe in the hope of what she says but let's remember the democrats took this candidates in 48 hours, revamped through her back out with a whole set of issues, whole set of responses. no she's trying to tell you wife -- life will be less noisy. but she won't even answer it shall extend the 2017 tax cuts. 62% of americans will see their taxes go up. do we really want to take that chance? i don't think we do. >> martha: so, you know, obviously everything that i'm hearing you say is speaking to this group that you talk about each of these very small undecided voters because you're saying that you think it is genuinely as tight as it looks. so i read mark theissen's peace on "the washington post" yesterday where he says that you need to be employed by the trump campaign and they need to get you out there or

else according to mark theissen he thinks that trump would lose the race. you said you were standing by and amicably been called upon to do ischemic. >> i think they had me do some fund-raising emails for him. but look, he's the candidate. candidates get to the site how they want this to play out. who they want with them, what they want to do. that his decision. is his call. we, you know, were trying to be helpful where we can and really doing the sirius xm show is getting out issues that i don't think the media is talking enough about. it's making sure they know who is tim walz, it's making sure they hear kamala in her own words saying this is what she believes and this is what she's not saying. it's making sure that we break it all down to that everybody knows exactly what they're getting. so, you know, you can find that podcast anywhere that podcasts are downloaded. you know, i would hate to see trump lose and -- what he's got some decisions to make and right now i'm hooked -- i hope you talking to 10% of americans. >> martha: and you will be out on the senate race

campaign trail? >> i will be out there for the mccormick in pennsylvania and that's a tight race none keys running a great race and we're hoping we can push them over the finish line. >> martha: governor and ambassador nikki haley and now on sirius xm. great to see you as always and will be watching, and we will be all over this for the next four weeks it's nice to see you in mexico so much. at the cu. we're back on the ground in hillsborough county, florida, is more than 1 million residents are told by the governor desantis to get out and to get out now. ♪ ♪

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>> good afternoon to you you talk about helena make it through a record storm surge at this tampa bay area, that was just what ten days ago and met 11 days ago came into the wall of water and push it all the way in. that was a seven-point 2-foot storm surge that was a record at the time emma think about this, we've got a win coming in here by tomorrow afternoon that will press a storm surge ahead of it and could be as much as 10-15 feet to think about what they just had an helene, almost double which is going to be incredible and we could see may be due storm surges one a storm gets in there and push the water up in the storm goes behind as the winds which around and then it blows the water out back at us and were upsetting on the south side of the old tampa bay, martha, we could see a 10-15-foot storm surge right here so it will be storm surge with the salt water flooding were concerned with than the winds are about maybe 100-120-mile-per-hour winds gusting and they will bring down a slew of power lines obviously and it's all about the fresh water flooding and land. we've got hurricane warnings all the way out through

orlando to the atlantic coastline with a storm surge expected for jacksonville st. jo 5 feet. the storm is going to be massive, is going to be epic and unfortunately it's probably going to be deadly. >> martha: bob, thank you. we are all watch you correctly save a woman from the rising waters in helene and we hope that everyone's getting out and i don't have to put those skills to work again. so we really hope people are heeding the warnings. thank you so much. at the cu. that is "the story" on this tuesday october eighth. the story goes on and tomorrow "the story" will be the storm, milkins will see you back here for our a-week coverage for that tomorrow at 2:00. stay tuned for right now because "your world" is about to get started and you don't want to miss that. thanks for joining us everybody will see you back here tomorrow. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪